Officer-involved shooting in BP

Busy week for Baldwin Park police and the sheriff's detectives who are handling two cases out of the 80,000-population city this week.

Aside from the triple homicide Monday, authorities this morning are investigating an officer-involved shooting involving BP officers and a man. It happened about 5 a.m. in the 5000 block of Maine Street. The man's condition is unknown at this point, though preliminary wire reports say he is "critically" wounded.

Sheriff's deputies are still out at the scene, and one deputy told me the officers were conducting a search warrant when it happened.

Here's what I just put up on our Web site:

BALDWIN PARK - Police officers conducting a search warrant shot and wounded a man this morning in Baldwin Park, authorities said.
The incident occurred about 5:10 a.m. in the 5000 block of Maine Avenue, said Ed Hernandez, a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
No officers were injured.
Hernandez did not know the condition of the man and had no details as to what prompted the shooting, except that officers had been serving a search warrant.
The sheriff’s department was at the scene this morning investigating.
“When something like this happens,” Hernandez said, “it’s probably because the officers fear they are in safety of their life.”